Urbanisation
Cities
Sustainability
Planning our future
Migration
100
The number of people living within one square kilometer of land.
What is population density
100
relating to a city or town. The definition of an urban area varies from one country to another depending on population size and density.
What is urban?
100
The amount of productive land needed on average by each person in a selected area for food, water, transport, housing and waste management.
What is ecological footprint?
100
Also known as a green belt, this land is largely undeveloped, wild or agricultural and surrounds or adjoins urban areas.
What are green wedges?
100
A person who leaves their own country to go and live in another
What is a migrant?
200
The pattern of where people live.
What is population distribution
200
The growth and expansion of urban areas
What is urbanisation?
200
Unfavourable quality or attribute of a person's current location that drives them to move elsewhere
What is a push factor?
200
The buildings are more compact and more people live there.
What are denser urban settlements?
200
System in which workers fly to work in places such as remote mines and after a week or more fly back to their home elsewhere
What is FIFO (fly-in, fly-out)
300
Cities have have high population densities and remote places have low population density
Population distribution is not even
300
The spreading of urban areas into surrounding rural areas to accommodate an expanding population
What is urban sprawl?
300
Favourable quality or attribute that attracts people to a particular location.
What is a pull factor?
300
Something that motivates or encourages a person to do something.
What is an incentive?
300
Movement of people from major cities to live near the coast to achieve a change of lifestyle.
What is a sea change?
400
Most Australians currently live within a narrow coastal strip.
Where do most Australians live?
400
Pollution, high crime rates, traffic congestion, crowded, expensive housing....
What are some problems living in urbanised cities?
400
The facilities, services and installations needed for a society to function, such as transportation and communications systems, water and power lines.
What is infrastructure?
400
capable of working successfully
What is viable?
400
Movement of people from major cities to live near the forest to achieve a change of lifestyle.
What is a tree change?
500
Reasons for spatial patterns, including patterns noticeable in the landscape, topography, climate, and population.
What are geographical factors?
500
City with more than 10 million inhabitants
What is a mega city?
500
Indicators measured were combination of: a. Environment - air quality, ecological footprint, water ... b. quality of life - health, transport, wellbeing, population density and employment c. resilience( the ability of a city to cope with future change) - climate change, food production , education ....
What makes a city sustainable?
500
adding a component or accessory to something that did not have it when it was originally built or manufactured
What is retrofitting?
500
movement of people from one place to another within a particular country
What is an internal migrant?
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